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accord
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 13th century.
- From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accord?, accord?re (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
- The verb is first attested in early 12th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (obsolete) Assent
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Synonyms
- (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
- (international agreement): treaty
Derived terms
- of one's own accord
- with one accord
Related terms
- chord
Translations
Verb
accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
- (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
Translations
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Deverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.k??/
Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- chord
- agreement
- permission, consent
Derived terms
- accord parfait
- accorder
- d'accord
- d'un commun accord
- désaccord
Descendants
- ? Danish: akkord
- ? German: Akkord
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord
Further reading
- “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cocard
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- (Jersey) agreement
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settlement
English
Etymology
settle +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?set.l.m?nt/
- Hyphenation: settle?ment
Noun
settlement (plural settlements)
- The act of settling.
- The state of being settled.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
Synonyms
- (A resolution of a dispute): arrangement
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:settlement
Derived terms
- settlement agreement
- settlement house
Related terms
- settler
Translations
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